Possibility of Walking With A Severance
I’ll try to keep this Exec Summary level:
- Was BSd in to current position; factual ommissions on hiring managers part about condition of programs, actual budget, etc
- Of course, experience & time shows the position is a “throwaway” meaning leaders never expect incumbents to be successful in this role. They intend to use the person as a political punching bag because they know budget is no where near whats needed for success, but they’ll just punch the person over lackluster performance instead of risking their relationships w/ Their Bosses by asking for more $. Its “spousal abuse leadership.”
- Leaders just want someone to occupy the seat, take their crap, and shine the turd as much as possible w/ out wanting to move up in the org.
- I have amassed plenty of data showing these programs are severely underfunded compared to industry benchmarking.
- I am repeatedly denied promotions based on subjective “we think, we feel” reasons despite solid work/job performance backed by data.
They have never shared data for their subjective reasons, even after asking for it.
- The leaders’ behavior is toxic leadership with a thick icing layer of nepotism/politics/non-merit based decision making, but most importantly completely opposite of how company claims to treat its employees.
- I want out of this userous one-way relationship shit job, but can’t afford financially to walk.
- I’m in a career field being completely ball kicked by COVID, so there’s even more risk in quitting.
What are the realistic chances I can take my story of this toxic leadership with its supporting data to HR and get some kind of severance out of the company? One year’s salary would be nice; 6 mos would be scary but doable?
#hrissues #workplacepolitics #nepotism #toxicleadership #beingusedliketoiletpaper
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Also, why not just job hunt while still employed? That sounds better than politicking for a payout, no?
All of what you described sucks, but is basically typical Corp America politics
(1) bring this data to leadership with paper trail
(2) then get fired for bad performance
(3) sue the company via a lawyer
Otherwise just having a conversation with leadership and expecting a handy payout is probably not going to happen.